Shall the Geek Inherit the Earth? In his recent book, Point to Point Navigation, Gore Vidal asserts: “Today, where literature was, movies are… there can be no other reality for us since reality does not begin to mean until it is made art of. For the Agora, Art is now …
Hitting the Wall Like a present-day Don Quixote, I had the windmill firmly in my sights. It was clear that timing would be crucial.
Safe as House: Questioning a media myth Chinese Puzzle: According to recent reports, one and half million Chinese citizens were forcibly evacuated from their homes to make way for the Olympics in Beijing. David Ferguson digs a little deeper…
I was naïve kid, raised in a very conservative family. Thoughts of being anything but straight was never up for consideration.
Black Rock City Notes The Burning Man festival takes place every year in late August, in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert — an expanse of crackled, alkaline desert ringed by mountains. This year, I arrived on a Saturday, two days before the event officially opened, when the playa was still noticeably …
“Do you feel that your imagination is different than the imagination of those generations that succeeded us?” – Petr Kral at Prague Writers’ Festival ‘08 How does a young artist find inspiration in a society where “everything has been done”?
Does prize culture in the arts spells disaster? In an era where “Everyone’s a Winner”, the bar continues a downward decent, and children are given “diplomas” for completing nursery — James W. Wood argues that creators, artists and audiences should have only one interest: pleasure.
The International Olympic Committee says “no”, but the Scottish Parliament says “yes”. Is the Saltire a national emblem or flag of convenience? Andrew J. Wilson unravels what the most important symbol of Scotland means today.
In his incisive introduction to The Road to Independence? Scotland Since the Sixties, Murray Pittock defines an ongoing problem: “Separate histories of Scotland are fine for Scots. That is the general consensus… But across the UK in general, Scottish history occupies a rather strange no-man’s land between the local and …
In the Thigh of Evening for H.C. We sit here in the thigh of evening you in my memory and I– black treetops are moving music scored on sky
Entropy Rising 1968, the world boiled: riots in Mexico City, a military coup in Iraq, the Pope condemned birth control, France ground to a three-week halt, US Marines made a massacre of Mai Lai. The Beatles released the White Album, Andy Warhol painted cans of soup, Kubrik made a monkey …
Edward Louis Bernays: Doctor Freud’s PR whiz nephew Have you heard of this man? If, not, read on . . .
original fiction by Brian Whittingham illustration by Oliver Paterson My weekly routine was always the same, up until last Saturday. I’ve had ticker problems that I won’t bore you with, but it means I can no longer hold down a regular job, and I rattle like a maraca from the …
Bon Appétit: Healthy Cooking for the Immune System Food writer and broadcaster Nell Nelson is a practicing nutritional therapist based in Edinburgh. In this issue Nell begins a regular look at the world of food and offers ONE readers her own perspective on healthy eating and better living.
Tasting Notes: Children of the Grape Until recently, my life seemed like a tiresomely enthusiastic New World wine — so stuffed full of flavours that it resembled nothing less than Piccadilly Circus in a bottle. On top of the day job, I’d been burdened with a troublesome trio of additional …
